200 Seconds

In this work, made between 2006-2009, a leather case in which family cine films have been stored for over twenty years is converted into a pinhole camera. 200 Seconds refers to the exposure time of each photograph and to the duration of a 50ft spool of Kodak Super-8 played at the standard rate of 18 frames per second. Each photograph is made during the projection of a film from the archive, contracting thousands of frames into one new image – a contrast to the digital proliferation of personal photographs and their distribution through social networking sites. Traditional black and white paper negatives are printed to the same scale and dimensions as the projection screen on which the films were repeatedly viewed on family occasions.